Announcements I forgot to make in today's class (*kind of important*)

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Homework I

Terry (the TA) gave me the corrected versions of Homework 1. I brought them 
to the class and forgot to tell youa about it. Terry wants you all to knwo 
that the delay is caused by my hare-brained behavior and not by him. You 
can pick it up next class (or from my office)

Next class reading

Once we complete Adversarial search, we will skip the logic chapters and go 
to Planning chapters. So the next chapter for reading will be Chapter 11.

Class survey

As of now seven (7) people have taken the time to do the online survey. If 
you plan to do it, do it asap.

Someone said that they found anonymizer redirection too slow. If that is 
the case you can always use
the direct URL

  http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse471/f01-survey1.html

(the only trace you leave on my logs is your IP number. Unless the machine 
you are using has a name that is a dead-giveaway, there is no reason for 
anxiety)

Project 2:

For project 2, I am thinking of a two parter with mini tasks on CSP and 
Game Search. More details soon, hopefully



Book references:

Prisoners dilemma by William Poundstone
   (A history of game theory--with concentration on imperfect games; 
contains nice descriptions of John Von Neuman's life in Rand Corp)

  (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038541580X/jimloyshomepage/103-8550484-2291013) 



Beautiful Mind: Biography of Jojn Nash by Sylvia Nasar
tells the incredible life story of John Nash, who did seminal work on Game 
Theory (Nash Equilibrium) in his 20s and then went schitzophrenic. He 
recovered in his 60's just in time to claim his Nobel prize for economics

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684853701/ref=bxgy_sr_text_a/103-8550484-2291013